At the beginning of this year, a great discovery was made – I should say ‘recovery’, thousands of Robert Capa’s negatives that were thought to be lost were found.
| “ To the small group of photography experts aware of its existence, it was known simply as “the Mexican suitcase.” And in the pantheon of lost modern cultural treasures, it was surrounded by the same mythical aura as Hemingway’s early manuscripts, which vanished from a train station in 1922. The suitcase — actually three flimsy cardboard valises — contained thousands of negatives of pictures that Robert Capa, one of the pioneers of modern war photography, took during the Spanish Civil War before he fled Europe for America in 1939, leaving behind the contents of his Paris darkroom. source: |
You can view some images of the negatives here:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/27/arts/20080127_KENN_SLIDESHOW_index.html
[Photomedia Forum post by T.Neugebauer from May 12, 2008]